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Comment Re:Did He Really Just Pull That Up To His Face? (Score 3, Insightful) 289

by RobertNotBob (#42180845) Attached to: Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle
Yeah, But...

All of the high-stress areas are also in the UPPER receiver. If the upper receiver, chamber, barrel, bolt-face, cam-lock, and main spring are all from "typically manufactured" steel and aluminum parts, then using this weapon is not any more dangerous than firing a mass-produced AR. - Just less reliable.

Comment You should already know! (Score 3, Funny) 544

by RobertNotBob (#42041787) Attached to: What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars?
Awe, come on , guys...

We've known for 40 years what comes from Mars and shakes the earth...

It's the "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator".

Marvin has been searching for YEARS for that darned thing; ever since Buggs was able to get it away from him. Let's hope that he's not looking at the news today.

Comment Obvious connection (Score 1) 269

by RobertNotBob (#41263159) Attached to: Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting
I was watching a documentary about Mt St Hellens and they mentioned that due to the shape of the mountain (pre-incident) it was called "The Mt Fuji of North America". - They went on to describe why the shape of the mountain contributed to the particular way in which St Hellens went.

Ever since then, I was wondering why Japanese scientist weren't worried about Fuji. - Now I know: They ARE worried.
Entertainment

Submission + - Star Trek makes the German news (foxnews.com)

Submitted by RobertNotBob
RobertNotBob writes: In a gaffe of galactic proportions, a local news caster in Germany apparently Epic-Failed a google search and displayed a logo from the series Deep-Space 9 instead of the logo used by the Special Operations team that is widely reported to be the group that recently killed that famous terrorist earlier this month. (name omitted because I am, quite frankly, sick of hearing about him.)
Enjoy the story, and see if you notice the batlif's at first glance
Idle

Submission + - Einstein for Everyone (pitt.edu)

Submitted by sridharo
sridharo writes: An interesting post simplifying Einstein's Theories. It's Relativity theory made relatively simple.
Japan

Submission + - Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by
fysdt
fysdt writes: "Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core's 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down.

Previously, Tepco believed that the core of the reactor was submerged in enough water to keep it stable and that only 55 per cent of the core had been damaged."
The Almighty Buck

EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry 221

Posted by Soulskill from the put-your-money-where-your-gun-is dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Ben Kuchera from Ars Technica is reporting that EA/DICE has substantially changed the game model of Battlefield: Heroes, increasing the cost of weapons in Valor Points (the in-game currency that you earn by playing) to levels that even hardcore players cannot afford, and making them available in BattleFunds (the in-game currency that you buy with real money). Other consumables in the game, such as bandages to heal the players, suffered the same fate, turning the game into a subscription or pay-to-play model if players want to remain competitive. This goes against the creators' earlier stated objectives of not providing combat advantage to paying customers. Ben Cousins, from EA/DICE, argued, 'We also frankly wanted to make buying Battlefunds more appealing. We have wages to pay here in the Heroes team and in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy. Battlefield Heroes is a business at the end of the day and for a company like EA who recently laid off 16% of their workforce, we need to keep an eye on the accounts and make sure we are doing our bit for the company.' The official forums discussion thread is full of angry responses from upset users, who feel this change is a betrayal of the original stated objectives of the game."
Privacy

Submission + - Riot police raid facebook user's birthday barbecue (theregister.co.uk) 1

Submitted by
Anonymouse
Anonymouse writes: "The police spend their time trawling our private information on Facebook looking for criminals, Welcome to 1984:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/17/police_raid_birthday_barbecue_facebook_invitation/

Riot police stormed a man's 30th birthday barbecue for 15 guests because it was advertised as an "all-night" party on Facebook.

Four police cars, a riot van, and a force helicopter were dispatched to a privately-owned field in a small village near Sowton, Devon in the UK on Saturday, ordering the party shut down or everyone would be arrested.
The birthday barbecue was busted up before they even had a chance to plug the music in, reports the BBC ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8155441.stm )

It was about 4pm when eight officers with camouflage pants and body armor jumped out of their vehicles and ordered everyone out about an hour into the party. [...] The police had full-on camouflage trousers on and body-armour, it was ridiculous. There were also several plain-clothes officers as well [...] they kept on insisting it has been advertised it as an all-night rave on the internet. The times on it were put as "overnight" in case people wanted to sleep-over, but after being explained this they were still banging on saying it was advertised on the internet. They wouldn't accept it wasn't a rave. It was in a completely isolated field.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200310/Police-raid-30th-birthday-barbecue-man-used-Facebook-invite-friends.html"
Space

Submission + - SPAM: Beyond X PRIZE: $1.5B Commercial lunar market

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Optimism certainly abounds in some corners of the manned space community. Today the aerospace consultancy Futron said that as much as $1.5 billion may be up for grabs for commercial space operation in the next ten years. The consultancy singled out the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE contestants as a highly likely group to take advantage of such a cash pot but there are many others who'd like a slice of that pie as well. But its not all wine and roses: Finances loom large over any space projects, technology development is also proving to be a bugaboo. For example, even as NASA's commercial partners such as SpaceX and Orbital have made steady progress in developing space cargo transportation technology, they have recently fallen behind their development schedules. [spam URL stripped]"
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